Catia nods as Poochy blinks his eyes closed on top of her head. She walks with Cerise back to the Pokemon center after waving to Decoda and Loka. She walks straight up to the nurse on duty and takes out her new Rattata's pokeball and hands that to her. Gently taking the tired Poochy off of her head, she sets him down on the counter and smiles to the nurse on duty.

"May I have Poochy here and his new friend in the pokeball healed? They're both injured and tired."

After helping Loka up and nodding to her notion of going to make a phone call, he hurried over with a smile on his face - a real smile - ready to congratulate his companions. Mudkip struggled to stay on his shoulder, as it was waving to them with a little paw and "mud"ing all the way.

"Hey guys! Great job back there! I knew you'd do well! Catia, congrats on catching yourself a new friend!"

Once the two decided heading back to the center was their best bet for their Pokemon (and the injured Rattata) he encouraged the idea. He and Mudkip both waved to them as they left. He then looked over at Loka, watching her check her bag even though he couldn't hear anything.

"Kip?"

"I don't know either. But I'm not gonna be nosy about it!"

He said proudly, reaching his arms around to behind his head, shutting his eyes and smiling happily. In the back of his head, he hoped that Cerise and Catia wouldn't run into any team troubles, but with their battling skill (and slightly weakened Pokemon), it wouldn't surprise him if it happened anyway.

Cerise slowly raises the wild Rattata onto the counter. "Ah... excuse me, but... could you also take care of this Rattata for me, please? It's wild, but I don't want it to get taken advantage of because I just finished battling it..."

The nurse took the two pokeballs and placed them on a machine behind the counter. Lights and scanners started up and the pokeballs glowed. She then turned and took the ratatta gently in her arms. She placed the small pokemon on a cloth covered table and picked up a small handheld scanner. She swiped it over the pokemon and an X-ray of the ratatta showed on an overhead screen. The nurse studied the X-ray then began to treat its wounds. Several minutes later, the nurse comes back out and hands the ratatta to Cerise, and the pokeballs back to their respective trainers.

"Here you both go! Now I've noticed that you're new trainers, so I would like to interest you in a special deal that the pokemon centers across the regions all take part in." She hands each of them a plastic card. "These cards hold something called poke-miles. We sync these cards to your pokegear and it measures how many miles you've traveled. Those miles are converted to points which you can use to get discounts at marts, trips to private areas, or special items! Would you like to participate?"

Rizu by now had gotten all the information he needed from Watson and the other Gym Leaders he had ambushed. He was currently travelling down to Slateport City from Fallarbor Town. "So..." Albion had been stumble-skuttering next to him. "Unova or Kanto?" Albion snapped its jaws a couple of times, humoring him. "I was going to choose that regardless. Have some rest." He returned Albion to his ball. "I have family business there anyway."

"Excellent!" the nurse takes their pokegears and hooks them up to a machine, swiping a card through it. She hands the gears and the cards to both of them. "Here you go! You two are all set to collect your miles, and as an added bonus you each start off with 100 free miles!" The nurse smiled at the two as the ratatta cuddled into Cerise's arms. "Be sure to tell others about this!"

Catia takes her card and puts it into her bag before smiling at the nurse and waving goodbye.

"Sure thing! Thank you so much!"

She says as she goes outside of the pokemon center and goes to rejoin the others. She takes out the pokeball with her new Rattata in it just before reaching the rest of the group and grins at them.

"Let's see how Poochy likes his new friend!"

She says as she sets Poochy down after taking him down and off of her head. She throws the pokeball up and into the air and the Rattata from before it comes out and onto the ground in a bright flash of light. It gives a cry before Poochy walks up to it curiously, sniffing it from head to tail in curiosity.

Cerise waves good-bye to the Rattata before turning back to the others. What WERE they going to do now? He certainly didn't have a destination in mind. He wasn't even sure if he wanted to take on the Gym Leader Challenge. "Well... as a veteran Trainer, what would you recommend, Loka?"

Decoda grinned wider after watching Cerise wave goodbye to his little wild friend. He also awaited a potential answer from the experienced Loka, even though he imagined they should really start getting back to work about finding those rogue teams...

"She's right! I knew kids who threw themselves in front of their Pokemon during battles because they were so attached. It's easy when they come as lovable as they are!"

He stroked the fin on Mudkip's head calmly, then turned back up to Catia.

Catia kneels down and pets both Poochy and the Rattata before looking up at Decoda. She blinks at his question. She hadn't thought about a nickname for this little guy at all. Her capture of it was more of a spur of the moment kind of thing and she didn't really think it through that much. She sits down and sets the new Pokemon in her lap, scratching it behind its ears and giving it attention as she thought about things. Then she grinned as she thought up the perfect name for it.

"How about I call you Fang? How's that sound?"

She asks the Rattata, Poochy now pawing at Catia for attention as she giggles and pets his head too.

"I think y'all should come up with a plan on what each of ya is gonna do. If you don't wanna take the gym leader challenge, you don't have to. I'm sure there's other things in the world that fit some better then others. Like the Hoenn region has contests, and Kalos has berry farmin'. There's always somethin' for someone."

She takes out a case and opens it, revealing several small medals with symbols such as a hurdle, a flag, running shoes (and a few more) on them.

Catia perks her head up at the thought of the contests and the pokeathlon. If it was one thing that she liked, it was competing and showing how great she was. The Gym challenges sounded great too because of her love for fighting. It was definitely something to think about. Deciding to let her new Rattata "Fang" get acquainted with herself, she returns Poochy to his pokeball and gets up with the Rattata in her arms. She turns to the group.

"I personally think that I would do well to stick around and take the Gym challenges. I love fighting and that would be a great thing to do to show that I'm the best!"

Decoda peers over at Loka's case, grinning when he sees the glistening medals. The Pokeathelon would totally be something he could do with all the hardcore training he'd done! He looked over at Mudkip to see if his partner could handle it as such a low level, but maybe he wasn't giving the little mudfish enough credit. Then again, if it was too much, the contests mixed with his musical abilities could really be a career-boosting alternative! Maybe Mudkip would work best as a preforming Pokemon?

"Hmm... Those other events sound tempting! I'd love to try and do both if we can. But if you out-of-regioners wanna check out the local gyms, I'd be happy to accompany you!"

"Kip!"

But then Cerise mentioned the Poke-miles and the redhead put a relaxed fist around his chin and tried to recall if he'd ever heard of those. When he really thought about it, that's exactly what he was using to save money on his musical journey before this mission! He certainly had been using it to its fullest in card form, but now that he got his new gear, he could load what he had onto the device. He pulled out the temporary card he was given a while ago to show him, and the pokegear with it. He hit a few buttons and uploaded the points with no trouble, revealing he had about 30 left over.

"Sure do! I used a temporary card before I got my gear to help me travel! Looks like I used it a little too much, but we can split these points pretty fairly if you need me to buy anything for you two! Or three! I'm not greedy~"

He glanced over and winked at Loka, knowing she would be tagging along for whatever ride they'd take her on. He had almost forgotten that she used a whip to train her Pokemon...

"Cool! Thanks!" Cerise smiles, nodding at Decoda. Maybe going on this journey with Decoda, Loka, and Catia would help him find something that would be good for him. "So! Should we go on to the next town? Unless there's something still in Celadon to do...?"

Decoda snapped his fingers, just remembering there was a Gym in Celadon, a Department Store and a Game Corner - he did scare Mudkip a little with his sudden "AHA!" though.

"Mudkip!"

"Oh, sorry buddy! I just remembered something, that's all," he says comfortingly as he strokes its top fin with a couple fingers. He then turns to the other three.

"Loka, if you're willing to take us out, I'd be happy to oblige ya! We can check out if they're any cafes or whatever by the Department Store or Game Corner. There's a Gym too... I think it's a Grass type leader... And Catia, they sometimes give out Pokemon as prizes if you win at the Corner~"

He grinned, hoping they would find something interesting to work with - he was excited for whatever they planned on doing.

Loka stretched yet again as she turned away from the group, facing the way back to Celadon. Her long scarf moved slightly, revealing that her back was covered in scars of different sizes and shapes. The largest seemed to be partially hidden by her top. As she turned slightly towards the group, the scarf covered them yet again.

"Alrighty then! I'll treat y'all to lunch and if ya wanna, some time at the game corner! There's also the huge shoppin' center there, but they get more an' more expensive the higher ya go." She pauses, then shrugs. "Anyways, I think the rooftop Cafe would be an excellent place!"